Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
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Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.
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